Buy is a loss? I advise you to touch these digital products less

"When you realize that you have a digital product that 'eats ashes', there are often more in the shelves and boxes", this sentence can not remember where it was seen, but in Xiao Lei's view, there is indeed a lot of truth. As a digital product enthusiast, Xiao Lei believes that he has been quite restrained in buying digital products, but every year when cleaning the room, he can find "ash-eating" items that he bought on a whim but did not use much.

Looking back on your own purchase process, you will often find that when you buy it, you often feel that this thing will be of great use, but after the actual arrival, it is often forgotten several times, and the final fate is often forgotten in the corner of the room, and then found out at the time of the year-end cleaning and is hung up on the idle fish for sale.

This process is jokingly called "archaeological blood return" by fans, and many people even find out the digital products they bought a few years ago in the room, and then find that the second-hand price is actually higher than the price of their new purchases in the year (such cases appear more in some niche digital circles).

In the spirit of not letting dear readers step on the pit, as a senior "water fish" (Cantonese refers to people who are easy to be taken advantage of), Xiao Lei will come today for everyone to take stock (lightning protection) for everyone to take stock of the digital products that have been bought and found to have no eggs.

1、Kindle

When it comes to digital devices with the highest ash rate, kindles are at the top of various lists, and often occupy the first place. Many friends who buy kindles may be like Xiao Lei, thinking of using kindles to read books during commuting, traveling, and outdoor walking before buying, while feeling the progress of science and technology (electronic ink screen), while absorbing knowledge.

Although we can get the same experience with our mobile phones in the reading scene where the kindle is used, we will also find many reasons to convince ourselves that the kindle is different when buying. For example, the electronic ink screen does not hurt the eyes, reading books with kindle does not consume mobile phone power, kindle battery life is longer, etc., anyway, Xiao Lei thought so at the time, as a novel lover, Xiao Lei usually has the habit of reading, thinking that the worst is also an online novel reader.

So how is this kindle doing now? Is it a bubble cover? Or ornaments? No, as a worker who doesn't eat instant noodles much, kindle has even lost the qualification to act as a bubble noodle cover. Basically, Ray's kindle is repeating: suddenly remembering - opening the protective cover - finding that there is no electricity - putting it back on the shelf after full charge - forgetting, such a process, reading a book with a kindle? There is no existence, and the last thing to take out the door is the mobile phone.

Recently saw the kindle may be online color version of the news, but also evoked Xiao Lei's memories of this device, since five years ago to start the kindle, the use time may not exceed 10 hours, and WeChat reading and other mobile app has read more than 50 books (excluding the network novel to pass the time), Xiao Lei's reading habits have not changed, why kindle has fallen into this?

After recalling the experience of using the kindle, Xiao Lei believes that there are three main reasons for his kindle to eat ash:

First, it is inconvenient to carry

Even the smallest basic model of the kindle is two times larger than the mainstream mobile phone size, unless you have a pair of cargo pants or a large pocket design of the clothes, otherwise it is unlikely to carry the kindle without a backpack, and the portability is far less than that of the mobile phone.

Second, the reading experience is not good

Many people estimate that they are cheap and xiaolei buy the same kindle basic model, although technically are electronic ink screens, but the actual experience has a clear difference, the refresh speed of the picture, the fineness of the font, etc. will directly affect the quality of reading, and the size of the kindle is not suitable for one-handed reading on the commute.

Third, it is not suitable for fragmented time reading

For most migrant workers, reading is basically done in fragmented time, sometimes may just click on the reader to have WeChat information to deal with, the trouble of switching back and forth between the two devices is enough to make most people choose to retreat to the second, directly with the mobile phone APP to read books.

Although the above three reasons do not represent all kindle gray users, most people no longer use kindle reasons may be similar to Xiao Lei's. To be honest, the kindle is still very easy to use, the electronic ink screen is indeed more comfortable than the mobile phone after reading for a long time, but now many people's reading time is fragmented, resulting in the use of the kindle is far less beautiful than expected, and then gradually eat ashes, forget, and finally appear on the list of idle fish.

2. Mobile phone gimbal

The mobile phone gimbal, also known as the mobile phone stabilizer, can make the mobile phone in the process of moving to shoot video to maintain the picture stability, although it sounds very useful (Xiao Lei initially felt so), but many people around, including Xiao Lei himself, found that there are not many scenes that can actually be used after buying it.

Before buying a mobile phone gimbal, Xiao Lei's idea was: when going out with friends, you can take a video record, and you can also use your mobile phone to record some street scenery and things when you walk the streets and alleys alone. However, in real life, whether it is going out to play or walking the streets, basically in the case of non-running, the anti-shake performance of the mobile phone is enough to meet the demand, especially some mobile phones that are strengthened for the anti-shake function, such as vivo's X70, X80, etc., basically do not use the mobile phone gimbal.

For most people, unless you need to shoot a long-term stable picture with a mobile phone, and have high requirements for the stability of the picture, there is no need to buy a mobile phone gimbal, and a well-configured flagship mobile phone with built-in stabilization is enough to meet the shooting needs of daily video.

Moreover, the use of mobile phone PTZ is not as good as advertised, and the weight of mobile phone PTZ + mobile phone can make most people realize that the upper limit of their arm endurance is actually quite low. Of course, it cannot be said that the mobile phone gimbal is useless, but most people's requirements for video pictures do not actually need to use the mobile phone gimbal, so that in the end it is always impossible to avoid eating ashes.

3. Drones

In all of Xiao Lei's collections, the drone he once owned is the digital product with the highest gray scale, and it is also the fastest digital product that is second-hand. While using drones to look down on cities and parks feels good, there are many restrictions on using them in reality, and drone sellers often don't alert you (especially if you buy online).

On the one hand, the problem of drone control in the city, in the place where the radio environment is complex, the maneuverable distance of the drone is actually far less than the advertised length, and the inexperienced user will encounter the risk of bombing if he is not careful, not only to lose the drone, but also may be held accountable.

On the other hand, the release requirements of the drone, the small drone that can take off at will has limited functions, not to say that it is used for work, or it is not fun enough to entertain (the endurance is often only more than ten minutes or half an hour). Fully functional medium- and large-sized drones often need to be applied for and approved before they can be released (small cities may be less constrained, and large cities are very strict).

And after the initial freshness passes, most people will soon find that the drone is just a "toy" in their hands, and unless you often travel abroad, or are willing to carry a large drone suitcase when you go out, you have very few opportunities to use the drone in a year.

Not only Xiao Lei's own drone eats ash, another friend who bought a DJI drone, in addition to sending a few videos to Xiao Lei in the first month, there is no movement in the follow-up, and then Xiao Lei saw his drone sale message in the WeChat circle of friends.

4. Digital camera

Digital camera is also a tear of the times, Xiao Lei has a Sony digital camera before, but when the shooting performance of mobile phones has been greatly improved, digital cameras have gradually become a cabinet decoration, completely reduced to collectibles. However, Xiao Lei can still see many people asking whether the digital camera is worth buying, and even Xiao Lei's colleagues bought a digital camera last year, and then found that the mobile phone is still easy to use.

If the first few "eat ash" digital products still have some uses, then the digital camera is the real chicken ribs that are more than the upper and lower than the bottom, on the one hand, the imaging effect of the digital camera is indeed better than the mobile phone, but it cannot be shot immediately, or it is inevitable that the post-processing, on the other hand, compared with the real professional micro single and SLR, the effect of the digital camera is much worse.

It can be said that whether it is for professional users or amateurs, digital cameras are thankless products, and the price of digital cameras is not cheap, plus some money can already buy serious SLR and micro single set of machines, for friends who want to really learn photography technology, Xiao Lei recommends directly buying a micro single set of machines, or buying a two-glove machine is also a better choice.

As for friends who just want to take pictures, then Xiao Lei's suggestion is to take the money to buy a digital camera to buy a flagship mobile phone, the overall experience will not be much worse than the digital camera (unless there is a special need), and you can also get other experience upgrades in addition to taking pictures.

Of course, presumably some netizens will have some words about the "eating ash" digital products listed by Xiao Lei, and feel that they feel ok to use, such as kindle, Xiao Lei also has friends who like kindle very much, and they take it everywhere, but considering that most of the friends' kindles are ultimately eating ash state, then a few individual cases do not explain anything.

To put it bluntly, there is no real useless digital product, only niche digital products, when the use of a digital product is more demanding, or the product is more professional, or highly replaceable, the digital product will "eat ash", because most users always tend to be more "convenient" to use, rather than a more "better" way of use.

Taking headphones as an example, why do true wireless headphones with poorer sound quality and lower battery life replace traditional wired headphones and wired Bluetooth headphones to become mainstream? It is because true wireless headphones are more convenient to use, and for most users, convenience is the primary factor affecting the experience.

So how to avoid eating ashes on digital products that you buy back? As a digital enthusiast, Xiao Lei's advice is to think carefully about whether you really have an urgent need for this product before buying a digital product, and the existing equipment on hand cannot be replaced. After such a screening process, it is basically possible to avoid the problem of digital products being bought back but eating ashes.

However, if you are an avid digital product enthusiast like Xiao Lei, then there is a high probability that you will still buy back a bunch of "eating ash" goods, and no amount of thinking can compare to the happy mood when placing orders and new "toys".